One of the things I've noticed over the years is the women in the conservative movement. They all seem to follow a pattern. First of all, they are more strident (read bitchy) than any of the males. Second of all, they all preach the gospel of a woman's place is in the home, having babies and obeying her husband. The strange thing is of course that none of these women practice what they preach. And neither does the conservative movement or its voice -- the Republican Party.

Now that the Republicans have even gone so far as to nominate a woman for vice president of the United States, they continue with the same practice of sexually based politics. Otherwise, why has there candidate never once faced a press conference? Why were all her meetings with world leaders at the United Nations kept secret from the press? And most importantly, if candidate McCain feels that he needs to be in Washington to straighten out the economic mess that he and his party basically created over the last 40 years, why did they decide to "freeze" their campaign rather than allowing Governor Palin to step forward and continue the campaign herself?

I guess the real question is what is it that McCain and the Republican Party fear about Governor Palin being put in situations where there is no script for her to follow? What damage do they think she will do if she is freed from her "handlers"? What questions do they fear her being asked.

The way they act, they must know about some really terrible skeletons in her closet. We've had hints of them in the last few weeks: "Troopergate", her husband's involvement in crucial decisions concerning policies and budget items for the state of Alaska, the fact that we have e-mails that were sent to him concerning items which now the governor is claiming are covered under executive privilege -- even though, Todd Palin was not elected by the people of Alaska and as a private citizen (which is all he is) does not have the right to this type of privileged information.

Most importantly, do they fear that she IS as incompetent as many of us fear and has no business being "one heartbeat from the presidency" especially when the president who, if elected, would be the oldest man ever elected to that office?

I will be honest and admit that I think McCain in the Republican party chose her for the same reason that the auto industry in Detroit has chosen beautiful actresses and draped them over their cars to use sax to sell products they can't get rid of. It reminds me too much of this statement by Billy Crystal on Saturday Night Live when he played a character named Fernando. Fernando always said "it is better to look good than to feel good." And frankly the idea of a Palin/McCain administration does not make me feel good at all.

RIMPIG